Word: drunks
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...James Frey, on the night of October 24, 1992, pull up outside a bar in Granville, Ohio, in a white Mercury? Was he drunk and high on crack at the time? Did he jump the curb, bump a cop with his car, and then get dragged out screaming and beaten up by the police? Did he then go to rehab, write a book about it, inspire millions of readers and make a ton of money...
Last Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly gave an emotional defense of his decision to ask a district attorney not to release records concerning a drunk-driving accident that killed two Massachusetts girls in the fall. His defense, however, does not account for his remarkably poor judgment in the matter. The attorney general and gubernatorial candidate may have negatively affected a pending criminal investigation with his request, and his closeness to the girls’ family raises serious questions about whether the request was a product of political favoritism or genuine compassion.In October, two teenaged sisters—Shauna Murphy...
...perfect test of her professional skills. Hired to replace Kate Winslet on a week's notice, Johansson arrived on a London location never having met Allen or any of her fellow actors and was obliged immediately to plunge into one of her crucial scenes, in which, half drunk, she (temporarily) fends off the advances of Jonathan RhysMeyers, playing a character who may soon be her brother-in-law. She was, at the time, 19, and although she had been acting in movies for a decade, she had more often been a chastely yearned for object (Lost in Translation, Girl with...
...Egyptians who lived in the high-toned neighborhood around the park complained to authorities of human waste and garbage proliferating. Three refugee children died because of illness and exposure to cold temperatures. Meanwhile, mosque personnel complained that the Sudanese were sitting on the sidewalk beside the mosque getting drunk and leaving their alcohol bottles littering the pavement. And, in the first week of January, the small garden had to be free to accommodate the thousands of pious Muslims who were expected gather for prayer around the mosque to mark the holy Bayram feast...
While students may consider facebook.com a fun way to procrastinate and avoid work, joining groups with names such as these, posting inappropriate material, or appearing drunk in a picture could prove to be more than just a social faux...